Bar-counter box.



No. 8899140. PATENTED MAY` 26, 19:39.

' J. LEHNBBUTE?. & C. R. BRNNAGER.

BAR OGSTER BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1l, 1907.

WITNESSES:

UNITHDSTATES .PATENT OFFIOE.

. JOSEPH LEHNBEU'IERAND CHARLES R; BRUNNAOKER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNORS To oLAESe LEHNBEUTER MANUFACTUHING oo., OF sT. LOUIS MISSOURI, A CORPORA- TIoN-OF MISSOURI.

To all whom it may' concern.'

' Beit known'that we, JOSEPH LEHNBEUTER and -CHARLEs R. BRUNNAOKER, citizens of the United States, residing' at St.' Louis,`

State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements vinBar-Counter Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

Our invention has relation to improvements in bar-counter boxes; and it consists in the novel construction of box more fullyA set forth in the specification and pointed outin the claims.

In thedrawing's, Figure l is a front'elevation of a bar-counter box showing our invention applied thereto; Fig.` 2 is a/ vertical transverse section on the line '2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig.' 3y is a similar enlarged section of ,the

'. upper portion'showing the drip-pan shoved under the ice pan; Fig. 4 is a similar section showing the manner of tilting the supporting -members Aof the-drip-pan, to facilitate ,the manipulation of the pan in the act of draw-v box on top of the counter-bar.

The invention relates to a class offcabinets `or refrigerators-'which are employed in conjunction with a'bar counter over which draft.

beverages are dis ensed, the; cabinetbeing known commercia ly as a novelty-box; and the invention has for its special object to ,so mount ,the drip-pan below'the dispensing kfaucet that it may readilyv be shoved outof the way' in making room for the insertion oi.

the cask or barrel inserted into the ,space or compartment beneath the pan.

It consists infeatures of construction whose advantages will be better apparent from a detailed description of the invention which 'f is as follows: e

Referring to the drawings, B 'represents the novelty box or cabinet, the same being provided with'a rear central ice and coil pan 1 in front of which, and below the faucets 2 y Specification of Letters Patent. y

'Application 'med mmh 11, 1907. seal No. 361,724.

BAR-COUNTER Box.

Patented May 26, 1908.

of whose coil is located the drip-pan 3 when in use. .On either end of the box are the tapping doors 4 and the frontis provided with keg doors 5. In the particulars mentioned the box does not differ from prevailing forms of novelty boxes in use, and on the A market. 1 The box is inserted under the bar counter -C as well understood in the'art7 the edge of .the counter` on the side nearest the bar tender being formed into a gutter 6 for the draining of any liquid. A section of the gutter and bar counter is cut away or removed forming a recess or notch 7, a small portion-of the fillet or outer bead 8 of the gutter -being -removed at each end of the recessv thereby forming a shoulder 9 (Fig. 9).

box 10 having a perforated top on which the steen or glass is placed, the drippings iinding their way into the box whence they iiow through the drip nozzle d, and through the opening 7 of the box into the ice pan 1, which is itself provided with the usual drip pipe 0. The box l() is provided with marginal flanges l1 which rest respectively on a `rearstrip 12 supported on the gutter bottom at the base of the recess. and on a front strip 13 supported along the edge of the top of the vbox B. (Figs. 2, 3, and 9).

. The sides of the drip-pan` 3 are formed in. the shape of rectangular box tubes 14 whose Over this cutaway portionor recess is placed an oblong' outer faces are provided with longitudinal slots 15 `for the reception of the tongues or are given a slight upward tiltA or oscillation '(Fig.. 4) the slight inclination facilitating the with drawal of the pan, after which the weight Aof the panupon its'release will cause the supporting bars to drop back to their horizontal positionKFig. 2). The outer free ends of the ars 17 arer'abbeted so as to form a lap ioint 'a with what constitute supporting strips or restsf18 for the outer'ends of the bars when the latter are in their horizontal Dositior `/1 10 any convenient point.

The drip-pan when fully drawnout is no longer supported its full deptli bylthe flanges `or tongues 16, and provision is therefore made for supporting its outer edge. This is accomplished by the angle brackets 19 disposed on each side of the bottom adjacent theffrontedge of the pan (by front" edge is' here meant the edge nearest the bar tender), the vertical leg of each angle bracket being forked to receive a pin 20 on a plate 21,secured' to the side vertical walls of the middle keg compartment, the pins forming rests for the adjacent end of the pan. When the pan is in its withdrawn position the drip nozzle 22 thereof occupies a position immediately over the mouth 23 of a waste pipe 24' leading to rlhe inner faces of vthe doors 5 being formed in a series of-'step's or panels p, the pins 2O d not in any wise interfere withthe free closing thereof. The base of the wall in the rear of the faucets 2 is provided with a rearwardly deflected or bent drip flange h to direct any drip into the pan 3. Having described our invention what We claim is:

1. A box having an ice compartment, a key compartment below the same, a faucet leading from the front of the ice compartment, a sliding drip-pan mounted below the ice compartment and normally Withdrawn to a position in front of the ice-compartment to catch the drip from the faucet, means affording support for the front of the pan'I in its withdrawn position, the pan being adapted to be shoved out ofthe way under lthe ice-compartment, substantially as set forth.

2'. A box having an ice an or compartment,l a keg compartment elow the same, vertically oscillating lates or members disposedon each side be ow theice pan, a drippan mounted to slide, back and forth along saidplates and be shoved'to a position under the 1ce compartment, or pulled out lin front ofthe same, and means for supporting the free end of the drip-pan when pulled out in front of the ice compartment, substantially' `as set forth. a

4 tially-as set forth.

3. A box having an "ice an or compartiment, a keg compartment elow the same,

`ward to a position below the ice compartment, and means -for supporting the front free end of thedrip-pan when withdrawn in front of the ice compartment, substantially asset forth.

4. A box having an`ice A an or compartment, a keg compartment elow the same, vertically oscillating plates or members disposed on each sidebelow the ice pan, a drippan mounted to slide back and forth along said plates and be shoved to a position under the ice pan or pulled out in front of the same, angle brackets at opposite. ends of the outer free edge of the drip-pan, the vertical legs of the brackets bein forked, pins on the box for receiving the orked legs of the brackets and thereby supporting the front end of the drip-pan when drawn outward, and suitable supporting strips or rests for `the oscillating plates carrying the drip-pan, substantially as set forth.

5. A box having an ice compartment, a l

ment and normally withdrawn to a positionL in front of the compartmentto catch the drip from the faucet, means affording support for the front of the pan in lits withdrawn position, the pan being adapted to be shoved out of theway under the compartment, substan- In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

l .ibsEPH LEHNBEUTER. C HARLESR. BRUNNACKER.

Witnesses:

EMIL STAREK, l MARX D. WHrTooMB. 

